An Extra’s POV

Looking at the five, they all had training attire on.

Brutus wore light armor, the age and luster of his equipment pretty glaring to an observant eye. Justin and Clark wore similar-looking armor, with the former's looking a lot lighter, while the latter had more bulk to it.

Belle and Lucielle had some Enchanted Items on them, and Belle still had a book in her hand, which made it clear they were most likely practicing Spells. While Belle had the attire similar to a student, Lucielle wore a Mage's cape,with her inner attire being a loose white shirt and long trousers.

Based on everything about their appearance, coupled with the slight looks of exhaustion on the faces of the three Otherworlders, it was easy to deduce that they were just finished with training.

Justin and Clark were with Brutus, while Belle was with Lucielle. They rendezvoused and decided to visit Alicia's room together.

~They come here every day, Master. Ever since she fell asleep and was admitted here.~

The moment Rey heard those words in his head, he felt a little startled and also slightly suspicious.

'Ater, you… did you know they would come here at this time, yet you didn't tell me beforehand?'

Rey's initial plan was to approach them after properly organizing his thoughts. However, that didn't mean he was actively avoiding them.

After all, once he sensed their presence approaching the room, he had more than enough time to leave. They wouldn't have spotted him at all.

But… he didn't.

Perhaps that was because, deep down, he just wanted to get things over with. He didn't want to run anymore, and he simply wanted to see how they would react to him after all this time.

And now…

'... It's the moment of truth, I guess.'

Rey watched as the three finally got over their shock and looked at one other. They nodded, clearly in agreement on something.

Then—

'Here it comes!'

—They finally stepped forward, entering the room while walking towards Rey.

They had serious expressions on their faces; a sharp contrast to the jolly reaction that Lucielle opened up with. Brutus had a fairly neutral expression on his face, and after apologizing for Lucielle's behavior and dragging her away from Rey, he was silent.

Mage away

he had a stern demeanor, there was no anger or malice in his eyes. He simply stood in a corner, his hand tightly holding onto his colleague so she

seen each other in nearly three months,

me to have any visitors during my coma. It was for my safety, so I

done making this thought, his classmates were already right in

the same height as Justin. However, Clark still remained the biggest in

to break as Rey watched

and he prepared his

for saving our lives, Rey." Clark spoke up first, his calm tone completely surprising

expected that kind

Not from them!

when you did. Thanks…" Justin proceeded with his own words,

found this to be

nice to me?' He swiftly sent a message to the Familiar who stood a distance from him and watched everything unravel in

course not! You already told

that only made the

Billy died because of my negligence. Adonis left… Alicia is in

only human nature to seek who to blame for such a

scorn of the humans, but for his classmates, Rey knew they would find

them. He made them risk their

~If I may, Master…~

his mind, just as Rey was

to your supposed carelessness, several more were

escape without us. You got hurt so badly… and yet…"

her this emotional. He probably didn't even know she

for us and saved

my life for most of the battle.' Rey thought

Rey wanted, he could have indeed abandoned

But…

would mean abandoning Alicia…' He clenched his

living in the Capital. Rey was no saint,

Especially when he could

match for that Beast, I couldn't even escape any longer. It was

classmates were going easy on him despite how hard